"I know it sounds crazy, Tristan, but you have to believe me. Joey's in trouble." He couldn't believe he was actually saying this. "I can...I can feel it."

Tristan pressed the phone even tighter to his ear. "Like--like a sharp pain in your chest?" Téa looked up, recognizing the description and Yugi stopped pacing and went in search for the other phone.

"Yeah..." Seto Kaiba replied twisting his sheet tightly.

"You must have some bond with him Kaiba..." Although he didn't know it, Tristan's words made the CEO squirm even more. "The same thing happened to Joey Téa and myself when Yugi was dueling in the Shadow Realm."

"Why?" Seto asked still skeptical about the whole Shadow Realm thing. "I mean why did you get that feeling?"

"Because..." Tristan said softly. "Yugi almost lost his soul in the Shadow Realm forever."

In his soul room Yami shuddered clearly remembering the incident.

"I'm assuming that's a bad thing," the hospitalized teen muttered.

"Very bad," Tristan agreed.

"Then get out there and find him!" Seto cried. "The doctor is being very adament about not letting me out until tomorrow afternoon. So find him. PLease, he's in trouble."

Yugi who had found the cordless phone nodded. "Don't worry Kaiba, we'll find him."

***

"C'mon!" Yugi cried as he hurtled down the street. "We have to get to Joey's apartment. That's where he has to be!"

Tristan nodded and put on some extra speed. Téa ran as fast as she could but was still a few feet behind Yugi and Tristan. They slowed to let her catch up.

"Go as fast as you can," the brown haired girl cried. "Don't worry about me! Hurry!"

The two boy's nodded and turned a corner sharply almost running into three girls walking the opposite way.

***

Seto set the phone down and sighed.

Maybe he was just over reacting. Maybe Joey wasn't in trouble at all and maybe he was just imagining it all.

That thought abandoned his mind as red hot pain flashed through his chest. He winced and clutched it tightly, blue eyes shut trying to ignore it.

What if he was having a heart attack?

/"Why? After all I have put you through..."/

/"Because Kaiba...that's what you do. Even if they don't like you but you...you see something in them, you try to get them back. It's just what you do."/

Seto winced again but not from the pain in his chest, which had subsided.

He sighed and wished that he hadn't sent Mokuba home.

"When they find you Joey," Seto whispered closing his eyes. "You damn well better be okay."

***

He vaguely felt rough hands pick him up and hurl him against the wall. Blood oozed down the side of Joey's head and dripped onto the rug.

The world was spinning...spinning....his father's face....Seto....he had to stay awake...he had to visit Seto....had to tell him...and Yugi...had to...

Finally he could no longer hold onto any coherent thoughts. His mind went black as did the world around him and he knew no more.

***

They hurried up the stairs as fast as they could, the distance and the speed finally catching up with both Yugi and Tristan. They made it to the third floor and slammed open the door that read 'Wheeler'.

"Joey!"

They froze as they entered the apartment and studied the room around them sadly. The carpet had a thick layer of blood in spots and the wall near the kitchen had a huge splotch of crimson stained onto it. There were beer bottles and cans litttering the floor. Joey'd bag lay in the living room.

And it was empty.

"Dammit!" Tristan swore loudly. "They could be anywhere!"

Téa wobbled into the room out and breath and gasped, tears brimming in her azure eyes. "Oh my God..." she whispered.

Yugi walked wordlessly over to Joey's bag and picked it up. Carefully he unzipped it and looked inside. Clothing...the blonde's favorite shirt...his most prized pants...the sweatshirt Téa gave him for Christmas...a book...?

Curiosly the boy opened the thin book and smiled softly. It was a picture album...Tears spilled from his eyes and ran down his cheeks. There he and Joey were at the park...there was Serenity smiling at the camera, her now perfect eyes wide and happy. There was Tristan and Téa grinning at the camera and flashing two fingers at the camera.

And there was Seto. It was apparently a picture that Joey had snapped when no one, including the brown haired boy, was looking. The CEO was writing something, his eyes on his work, intently staring at the paper...

/"Don't worry Kaiba. We'll find him."/

For them...they had to find Joey...for Serenity, for Seto...

The hoplessness that had been filling Yugi's heart was immediately banished by the sight of so many happy faces. They had to find him...but where could he be...?

He stared down at the picture og himself and Joey intently as if Joey would answer him.

And, in a sense, he did.

At that moment, Téa's cell phone began to ring.

***

"Woah!" Ishizu stared down at her Millenium Item which was glowing radiantly. Ryou turned back but Bakura kept walking.

"What is it?" the mortal boy asked inquiringly, studying the Necklace.

"I put an additional spell on it," the Egyptian explained. "So that whenever the Pharaoh or any of his friends, yourself and your spirit included, Ryou, were in trouble, my Necklace, which can show me the present, would show where you were and what was happening."

"Why?" the white haired boy asked.

"Because," Ishizu replied. "All of you need to be alive if the past is truely to repeat itself. Even your stubborn spirit, Ryou."

"I heard that!" Bakura cried. He was at the end of the hall and had turned back to find out why his hikari was not following him.

"So who is it?" Ryou asked. "Who is in trouble?"

Ishizu shrugged. "I don't know. Come young one." She cupped her hands around the Necklace and closed her eyes.

"Hey!" Bakura yelled, sprinting across the hall. "No way! Ryou and I are going---"

***

Suddenly they were floating above a man dragging a half dead looking body. The body was bloody and bruised but still recognizable as a few locks of blonde hair fell from the boy's head.

Instantly, Ryou's eyes opened wide. "It's Joey!" he cried.

Ishizu bit her lip. "Are you certain?"

"Absolutely. He's one of Yugi's friends...the only blonde one...if it were Yugi's bangs," Ryou continued, as if hearing Ishizu's unasked question. "It would be shaped differently."

"So who's the man?" asked a voice behind the two. It was Bakura. He shrugged at his hikari's stare. "Apparently Ishizu wanted me to see this as well. So who's the man?"

Ryou stared down at the retreating back as Ishizu looked around for a landmark, already too aware of just who the man was.

"His father..."

***

"Hello?" Téa asked into the phone. "Oh...hi Ryou...." her eyes lit up. "Are you sure? You're absolutely positive?" She smiled. "Thank you so much---oh well then thank Ishizu. I'll see you later." She turned to her friends. "I know where Joey is."

***

He blonked his eyes carefully open and breathed shakily in. The scent of salt invaded his lungs making him choke and involuntarily cough. His "father" glared dow at him.

"So...you're awake. Well I've found a way to put you out of comission. Forever. A way to make it so that you'll never bother me again, punk. Smell the ocean? Well breath deeply and get used to it, because it's the last thing that you're ever gonna smell."

His words sank slowly into Joey's dulled mind. And the only thing that he could think of was that at least now he would be out of his misery.

***

"Hurry!" Tristan yelled impatiently at the taxi driver, who swerved to miss a car and two people and then sped on towards the docks.

"I'm goin' as fast as I can!" the driver cried.

A few moments later they pulled into the docks. Before the cab had even stopped, Tristan and Yugi were out of the car and running down the docks. Téa threw a couple hundred yen at the taxi driver and hurried away. She pulled her cell phone out of her pocket book and dialed the #911.

"Hello?"

"Please someone needs to get to the docks!" she cried. "An ambulence, a cop, anything, I think my friend is about to be killed!"

They found him easily even in the falling darkness. He had tied Joey up hog style and had and anchor tied to the boy. Tristan hit Donocha hard in the middle, slamming him against the docks.

Yugi hurried to Joey's side and began to untie the ropes as fast as he could. The blonde boy looked up and smiled vaguely at his friend. "Yugi?" he whispered, using his good eye to study his friend.

"I'm here," he whispered. "Don't worry, I'm here..."

"Watch...ou---"

Suddebly the smaller boy was batted away like a fly. He hit the dock hard and winced. Tristan groaned from where he lay. Yugi snapped his eyes open again to see the insane man holding boy above his head.

"No!"

SPLASH!

"Jooooeyyyyyy! Nooooooooooooo!"

A/N: Sorry, another cliffie. Heh heh. Anyway, yes my trip to Ireland was great. Enjoy! Hope you like this chapter better then I did. ^_^